Languages

Languages

What languages does Microsoft Translator support?

Text Translation
Microsoft Translator supports more than 60 languages for text translation. All of these languages are available in most products powered by Microsoft Translator including Translator for Bing and Translator apps.

Afrikaans

Czech

Greek

Klingon

Polish

Spanish

Welsh

Arabic

Danish

Haitian Creole

Klingon (plqaD)

Portuguese

Swedish

Yucatec Maya

Bangla

Dutch

Hebrew

Korean

Queretaro Otomi

Tahitian

Bosnian (Latin)

English

Hindi

Latvian

Romanian

Tamil

Bulgarian

Estonian

Hmong Daw

Lithuanian

Russian

Thai

Cantonese (Traditional)

Fijian

Hungarian

Malagasy

Samoan

Tongan

Catalan

Filipino

Indonesian

Malay

Serbian (Cyrillic)

Turkish

Chinese Simplified

Finnish

Italian

Maltese

Serbian (Latin)

Ukrainian

Chinese Traditional

French

Japanese

Norwegian

Slovak

Urdu

Croatian

German

Kiswahili

Persian

Slovenian

Vietnamese

Speech Translation
Microsoft Translator supports the following languages for conversational (not just simple command-like sentences) translation. These are available in the Microsoft Translator live feature in the Translator apps for Windows, iOS and Android (including Kindle Fire) and in Presentation Translator. They are also available in the Android and iOS conversation feature and in the Translator feature of Skype for Windows desktop.

Arabic (Modern Standard)

Chinese (Mandarin)

English

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

How do I get my language supported?

Text Languages:

We add new languages periodically. In the process of adding a new language to the automatic translation system, the most important learning material is existing high-quality translations—the same text in two languages.

A significant amount, typically 1+ million words of this type of text, is needed to build a reasonable-quality machine translation system for a particular language pair. Find out how machine translation works at www.microsoft.com/translator/mt.aspx

If you have access to this type of text, or to a community committed to adding a new language, we offer free use of the Microsoft Translator Hub. Languages such as Hmong, Maja, Otomi, Welsh, and even Klingon have been added to the Microsoft Translator service by using the Hub.

To see an example of how a community can use the Microsoft Translator Hub you can watch this Hmong community video.

Speech Languages

Speech recognition is a totally different process than translation. It requires a whole new set of data (hundred of hours of recorded audios and their associated transcriptions) and trainings of our machine learning based engines to become available. Therefore, we cannot always deliver speech recognition as quickly as new supported languages become available for Microsoft Translator.

We continue to release improvements to the quality of our existing languages and to expand on our coverage of languages from around the world so that more and more people can talk to the Microsoft Translator in their own language.

Downloadable Language Packs
Downloadable language packs give you access to offline translation in situations where Internet access is unavailable or cost prohibitive, such as with international roaming. Downloadable language packs are now available for the Translator apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Amazon Fire.

iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire
The downloadable language packs for the Microsoft Translator app for iOS, Android, and Fire are the world's first Deep Neural Network-powered offline translation engine. By downloading free offline packs, you can get near online-quality translations, even when you are not connected to the Internet.

Afrikaans

Danish

Hindi

Norwegian

Spanish

Arabic

Dutch

Hungarian

Persian

Swedish

Bosnian

English

Indonesian

Polish

Thai

Bulgarian

Estonian

Italian

Portuguese

Turkish

Catalan

Finnish

Japanese

Romanian

Ukrainian

Chinese Simplified

French

Korean

Russian

Urdu

Chinese Traditional

German

Latvian

Serbian

Vietnamese

Croatian

Greek

Lithuanian

Slovak

Welsh

Czech

Hebrew

Malay

Slovenian

Windows

Arabic

Hindi

Russian

Chinese Simplified

Italian

Spanish

Chinese Traditional

Norwegian

Swahili

Dutch

Persian (Farsi)

Swedish

English

Polish

Turkish

French

Portuguese

Vietnamese

German

Image Translation Languages
Image translation (also known as Optical Character Recognition or OCR) lets you translate text from your camera roll or saved pictures. Users can translate menus, signs or simple brochures from their phone with the translation appearing in an overlay above the existing text in the picture. This feature is currently available in the Translator apps for iOS, Windows, Android, and Amazon Fire.

Chinese Simplified

French

Norwegian

Chinese Traditional

German

Polish

Czech

Greek

Portuguese

Danish

Hungarian

Russian

Dutch

Italian

Spanish

English

Japanese*

Swedish

Finnish

Korean

Turkish

* Currently not available for Windows devices.

Short-form Voice Recognition Languages
Languages that support voice recognition for short sentences, such as when asking for directions.

These voice recognition models are available in Translator for Cortana, as well as in the conversation translations feature (one-way and bi-directional) in the Translator apps for Windows, Android, iOS, and Amazon Fire when a conversation language is not available (available conversation models are indicated with an *). These models are the same speech recognition models that power the Bing Speech API short form.

Text to Speech Languages
Some languages have text to speech audio output, allowing you to hear the translated text in its native accent.

Text to speech in all languages is available now in the Translator app for Android. The text to speech feature is available in Translator for iOS, the Microsoft Translator live feature, and Translator for Bing, with full support for all languages coming soon.